Elmer’s Tune

Name: Elmer’s Tune
Duration: 2 min 51 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.1	Elmer’s Tune	2:51	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Elmer’s Tune / The Birth of the Blues	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Single	US1941	Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)	36359
1.1	Elmer's Tune	2:53	Benny Goodman	Best of the Big Bands: Benny Goodman Featuring Peggy Lee	Benny Goodman	Album + Compilation	US1993	Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)	CK 53422
1.1	Elmer's Tune	2:52	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	The Chronological Classics: Benny Goodman and His Orchestra 1941, Volume 3	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Album + Compilation	FR2002	Classics (French jazz reissue label)	1271
1.3	Elmer’s Tune	2:51	Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Smash Hits of the 40’s	Various Artists	Album + Compilation

alto saxophone:	Lloyd “Skip” Martin (on 1941-08-15) Clint Neagley (on 1941-08-15)
baritone saxophone:	Chuck Gentry (on 1941-08-15)
clarinet:	Benny Goodman (clarinetist and bandleader) (on 1941-08-15)
double bass:	John Simmons (bassist) (on 1941-08-15)
drums (drum set):	Sid Catlett (on 1941-08-15)
guitar:	Tom Morgan (Big band era guitarist) (on 1941-08-15)
piano:	Mel Powell (American composer and jazz pianist) (on 1941-08-15)
tenor saxophone:	George Berg (on 1941-08-15) Vido Musso (on 1941-08-15)
trombone:	Cutty Cutshall (on 1941-08-15) Lou McGarity (on 1941-08-15)
trumpet:	Billy Butterfield (on 1941-08-15) Al Davis (on 1941-08-15) Jimmy Maxwell (Trumpet) (on 1941-08-15) Cootie Williams (on 1941-08-15)
vocals:	Peggy Lee (jazz vocalist) (on 1941-08-15)

recording of:	Elmer’s Tune (on 1941-08-15)

lyricist:	Sammy Gallop
composer:	Elmer Albrecht Dick Jurgens

later parody versions:	St Sigfrids plan